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The mission of the MITQCD Collaboration is to understand the structure and interactions of hadrons and nuclei from the Standard Model of particle physics.

The Standard Model describes the strong, electromagnetic, and weak interactions, encoded by quantum chromodynamics (QCD) and electroweak theory, and their actions on the fundamental quark and gluon degrees of freedom that make up the visible matter of the universe. It is not possible to achieve analytical descriptions of Standard Model dynamics in the low-energy regime because of the complexity of the quark-gluon dynamics described by QCD. The only non-perturbative approach to study QCD from first principles in this regime is the numerical representation of this theory on a discretized space-time, known as lattice QCD. Performing lattice calculations on the world’s largest supercomputers, our Collaboration studies the Standard Model dynamics that underlie hadron and nuclear structure and reactions.

This website provides information about some of our major research directions.